^^^^appreciate your thoughts...just remember: it's good to balance what you want vs. what's good for wildlife in this situation...we have far more access now compared to the good old days, those days when BC had 180,000+ hunters and still long muley seasons for any buck, a 3 point or better bull elk season, and much more liberal moose seasons...in those areas where those that hunt year round are hammering ungulate pops, particularly moose, how else can we limit their harvest? No amount of CO's or access restrictions will work on them , we know that...there are certain parts of region 8 where they are speculating mule deer buck:doe ratios are low, and access is a huge reason why - I'm an advocate of the any buck season, and our forest fires should help, but we have to be careful...

Maybe instead of having the ability to access 85% of the countryside by vehicle, we should have the ability to access 65% or something like that?? BC has a tonne of crown land, take for example Washington below us is 1/5 the size and has twice as many hunters...maybe we should be content with less access, and know that we are then creating wildlife sanctuaries that are very beneficial to ungulates...because face it, if we don't cut back our access, in the future we could see even more restrictive hunting seasons....so do you want more access, or more liberal hunting seasons??